I switch on the track(s) in the yard I plan to use before firing it all up. The locomotives then catch the signal, although locomotives are not supposed to be stored in the freight yard! The Super gets her dander up if we don't "follow the rules" on the CL&W. Being a non-complicated kind of guy I've chosen the simplest method which proves to work, by trial and error. FINALLY got the layout working the way I want so we stopped upgrading and improving; left DCS at the last release I could get to load properly; same with TMCC.
No budget for going to Legacy, but as we don't have any Legacy equipment ... all continues to work with "regular" TMCC.
Budget for new locomotives was frozen in favor of a locomotive repair fun, which is keeping even for now.
